Wow. That's one of the big differences with Windoze, you have to be really careful to uninstall. If you just delete installed software, it leaves behind entries in the "registries" that can cause instability in the operating system...

I wonder why its OK to just drag to the trash? Is there no impact in OS X "registries?"

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Instead of having registries, OS X has libraries. There are two libraries, the system library and your user library. A library is basically just a folder with some text files in it, which are used to hold your settings.

The filenames in the library follow a pattern - com.company.product.plist. If you install two copies of Office, you'll still only have one com.microsoft.office.plist, so you'll be fine

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